Weaving Lab – Aisha Hachem

Saturday, October 25 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Join the collective weaving and embroidery lab centered around the theme of home. Together we reflect, share, and create – exploring what home means to each of us. Whether it’s a color, a scent, an object, or a place, participants will work side by side with Aisha Hachem on one large woven piece that brings together many voices and memories.

No experience is needed – just come as you are, ready to connect, create, and take part in this shared experience.

“If the first threads sought to repair what was once broken, these now turn inward – toward the body, the self, and the shifting idea of belonging. The act of weaving becomes less about mending objects, and more about understanding how identities are formed, unravelled, and rewoven through time and movement.”

“Each participant enters carrying their own pattern, visible or hidden – shaped by language, memory, and geography. As threads pass between hands, gestures repeat, stories overlap, and distinctions blur. Individual weavings begin to echo one another, forming quiet correspondences across difference.”

“In this process, identity ceases to be singular. It stretches, knots, and merges; it becomes a shared rhythm, not a fixed design. The space of the lab grows into a small community – one built not through agreement, but through the coexistence of many textures.”

“Here, the weave no longer belongs to one maker. It carries multiple tensions, multiple threads. The ‘I’ becomes a ‘we.’ From this collective fabric, a new phase of making emerges – one that holds the weight of individual histories while imagining a future woven together.”– Aisha Hachem